Renfro v. JD Coggins Company

COMPTON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the defendant in a wrongful death action and for damages for loss of personal property.

The complaint alleged that the defendant was negligent in repairing, or in failing to repair, faulty brakes on a used Galion road grader before delivery to the plaintiff, Bar-tie Renfro, thereby breaching its express and implied warranties of fitness; that such negligence was the proximate cause of the accident in which decedent was killed. The complaint also pleaded the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. Defendant’s answer, among other things,…